Game apparatus



L. LA BORIE.

1 GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. 1922.

INVENTOR. Loews. fizz/501 622- LOUIS LA BORIE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

ourrao STATES GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

Application filed February 3, 1922., Serial No. 533,968.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS LA Bonm, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formlng a part of this specification, and to the re erence numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to games an toys, and more particularly to game apparatus, and it has for its object to prov de an equipment of this kind that will be simple, and cheap to produce and capablepf affording amusement for either an individual alone or fora number of players. A further object of the invention is to provide a game that can be played and understood by very small children. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claim at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a game board constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention;

Figure 2 is a side view of one of the racing units, and

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the dice or chance device used in the game.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same arts.

The game board 1 indicated in Figure 1 may be of a usual flat cardboard construction foldable down the center to permit one half to be overlaid upon the other half. When opened as shown in the figure it presents, through lines or markings on its surface a track or course, indicated generally at 2 and preferably of the arched or U shape shown. This track is divided by longitudinal lines 3 into a plurality of tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, six in number in the present instance. Transverse lines 10 at intervals divide the track and paths into an equal num ber of spaces or units of advance, some of which are arbitrarily selected as points of hazard such as those indicatedat 11 with the title Blow out, lose one throw and those indicated at 12 by the title Accident, return to start. Each of the tracks 4 to 9 is pref erably colored distinctively from ,the rest and at the foot of the board are preferably provided a series of starting points or parks 4*, 5 6, 7 8 and 9 equal in number to the paths of the track and corresponding to them respectively in color. A starting line is indicated as shown at one end of the track and a finish line at the other.

In connection with the board I provide a plurality of racing units 13 which, as shown in Figure 2, are in the present form of diminutive automobiles, the unit shown in Figure 2 being enlarged. These are equal in number to the paths of the track on which they are'to be respectively run, and each unit is preferably colored to correspond with its individual path and with its individual starting point 4 to 9 I further provide a plurality of dice 14 of the nature shown'in Figure 3 and to the same number as the paths and racing units. Each die has six faces or one for each racing unit with which it is also marked to identify such particular unit as with the letters shown at 15, 16 and 17. These may stand for different makes of automobiles and the respective faces may be and preferably are colored to correspond in like manner. The game may be played in several ways, but the following illustration is the general nature: The dice 14 are shaken together in the hand or dice box and thrown on the board and a reading is made their top faces. Those of the racing units 13 that are indicated in the reading are moved along their respective paths on the track 2 a distance or a number of spaces corresponding to the number of dice in the 'throw that refer to them. Thus assuming that the automobile. .of Figure 2 corresponds in color and mark ing to the color and marking 15 of the die face shown uppermost in Figure 3 that unit is moved one space, If two or more of the dice read the same way the unit 13 is moved two or more spaces in addition. If none of the dice read to correspond with a particular unit it is not advanced at all, and if all of the dice should have the same reading, that particular unit would be moved six spaces on the play and none of the rest would move at all. a

If a given throw lands a unit 13 on the space entitled 11, that particular unit ispenalized the advantage of the succeeding throw of the dice and cannot move at all whatever the reading of the latter may be, whereas any unit that lands, as the result of 10 ing start and finish lines and divided into a series of paths each in turn divided into 10ngitudinally successive spaces, of a plurality of racing units equal in number to the paths and a plurality of dice equal in number to the racing units and each having a plurality 15 of faces also equal in number to the racing units with the faces of each die marked to indicate the respective racing unlts.

LOUIS LA BORIE. 

